What I hope to see better support for in the baseline WordPress is support for post formats. I’m not really worried about the themes, but some better support in the admin interface for metadata (and standardized support for the common formats).
Maybe in 4?
Since I have a family, I deal with medical bills quite often. It’s just a fact of life when you have two kids.
One thing I cannot understand is how inept our medical system is at billing. This should be a solved problems and here are my recommendations for Allina mostly:
I know I’m asking a lot, but we are talking about millions upon billions of dollars here, so having a good system for customers to see information and pay bills would be great.
It’s easy to look at the Mac Pro as it currently sits and think that it is as good as dead.
I’ve thought that too.
However, I’ve done some digging and I think I’ve come to the actual culprit for the seemingly stagnant workstation: Intel.
While, yes, we’ve seen a lot of movement on the Core i-series of processors, and those processors have been moved into the other Mac lines, we have yet to see much-if-any movement on the multi-processor Xeon line.
I’m not talking about single-processor/multi-core Xeons, but the multi-processor/multi-core Xeon line, and that is something to keep in mind.
The current Mac Pro tops out at two 6-core Xeon processors at 2.93 Ghz a piece. As far as I can find (using Newegg and Wikipedia), there are only small, incremental steps Apple could release right now if they wanted to keep things the same. Could Apple have done this? Sure. Should they have? Probably, but it would have required them to commit to purchasing quantities of chip they sell very few of.
Currently it looks like the highest-end Mac Pro uses the Intel Xeon X5670 (two of them) with a TDP of 95W. They could use the X5675, which is just a little speed bump, but if they would use anything faster than that they would bump the TDP up to 130W. That’s almost 40% greater, and would probably require some internal changes to the Mac Pro that would differentiate it from the lower-specced models.
So the poor Mac Pro is stuck with old CPUs while we wait for the next version of the multi-processor Xeons to come out. This is what I am imagining as the headline features for the next Mac Pro (if there is one):
That’s about it. Most of this is being held up by Intel and I think we will see it when Apple can get its hands on newer Xeons. The Mac Pro is really a single model with multiple configurations and if they need to have special models, I just don’t think they are going to go through with it.
For now, I put a moratorium on Mac hardware purchases for myself until the next refreshes not because of anything Apple has done, but because Intel has been holding some things up.
As reported by Serenity Caldwell at Macworld, Apple has pushed the sandboxing requirement for the App Store to June 1st along with two other changes/clarifications:
I’m not sure if these are permanent changes or just temporary as Apple looks to tighten up their sandboxing requirement or even ditch it altogether.
Serenity Caldwall has written over at Macworld about Ten exciting changes in Mountain Lion.
I’m going to highlight some of my favorites so far:
Read about the other seven because they might “tickle your fancy” more than these, but the above three are some of the little things that are getting me excited for Mountain Lion.